MUSTWIN: Micromachined ultrasound transducers for wide range application in medical imaging and non destructive testing

• Unité de recherche: PCRD EU
• Numéro de projet: 03.0589-1
• Titre du projet anglais: MUSTWIN: Micromachined ultrasound transducers for wide range application in medical imaging and non destructive testing

Mots-clé (Anglais)

Ultrasonic imaging; non-destructive testing

Autre Numéro de projet (Anglais)

EU project number: 505630

Programme de recherche (Anglais)

EU-programme: 6. Frame Research Programme - 1.3.4.3

Description succincte (Anglais)

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Résumé des résultats (Abstract) (Anglais)

Objective is to bring a major breakthrough in ultrasound transducers design and manufacturing processes with performances well beyond the standard technology of piezoelectric transducers. Based on MEMS manufacturing process, these new devices will replace existing arrays and sensors used in Ultrasound Medical Imaging and NDT, offering bandwidth over 100% with reduced losses and lower manufacturing cost. Furthermore sensors and transducers operating above 10 MHz will be achievable in a collective way resulting in a high level of yield and reliability. Benefit for EU will be in Medical diagnosis improvement, manufacturing control with high performances miniaturised sensors, and will create employments for transducers manufacturing in EU MEMS foundries instead of actual subcontracting labour in non-EU countries. The work plan is using main outputs from the growth Parmenide and the UMIC Eureka projects.

Références bases de données (Anglais)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 03.0589-1